Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick-- also called a deer tick ... bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ticks ...

Lyme disease is still the state’s most common reported tick-borne disease, but two other diseases – human anaplasmosis and babesiosis – can result from deer tick bites in ...

there were a total of 24,346 confirmed cases of Lyme disease. The blacklegged ticks that transmit the etiological agent of the disease, the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, are often linked to ...

Approximately one-third of blacklegged ticks (also called deer ticks) tested during recent years in Minnesota were positive for disease-causing organisms, say state health officials. Blacklegged ...

What Is the Most Common Way to Get Lyme Disease? The most common way to get Lyme disease is through the bite of the black-legged tick (also called the deer tick) or the western black-legged tick.

Lyme Disease: Lyme disease is an infection caused by ... Once infected, the tick can transmit the disease to its next host. Deer ticks are extremely small, with tick nymphs being about the size of the ...

Deer tick nymphs are the primary transmitters of Borrelia ... burgdorferi, the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. The ticks ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) records about 30,000 cases of Lyme disease each year. But researchers think the actual number of infections might be closer to 300,000 Produced ...

Cases of Lyme disease, the most common tick-borne ailment in the U.S., are on the rise, thanks in part to a rainy spring. Johns Hopkins University’s Dr. John Aucott explains efforts to identify the ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick- also called a deer tick - is ... bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger (nymph) blacklegged ticks ...

They feed off birds and mammals (such as deer squirrels or sheep), so if there are animals around, there are more likely to be ticks too.” While the symptoms of Lyme disease you’ll often hear ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick— also called a deer tick — is a risk during ... ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease while 20% to 25% of the younger ...